The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...

Edit 10/23/11 @ 6:09 AM: The very first feedback I received on this post
was from an intelligent and thoughtful reader who notes that "I don't see
you talking at all" in response to my "what the eff are we talking about
here?" at the end. The mailer writes that it is all about conversing, asking
questions and challenging the status quo and asks a question of his own about
what I was hoping to find, the promised land? He saw me pointing a finger
and poking fun.

So here is my answer: I wanted to find some of history. I wanted to find
something different. I wanted to find someone talking about money printing
and inflationary disenfranchisement. That is what the whole Fed shtick was
about in the video (I admit the helicopters that flew over the Fed had me
thinking about making tin foil hat jokes and got me unfocused). I did not
want to find Kumbaya and bongos. I suppose I wanted to find something more
focused on a message of the '99%' being so many of us stuck in the middle
of a triad of the Democrat machinery, the Republican machinery and the Corporate
machinery. With a side of Federal Reserve thrown in for good measure.

As for pointing a finger and making fun, I wish there was something to
point a finger at. I kept muted my views on Socialism and Unionization. I
let the signs pictured below, especially the first two, do the talking about
things I care about. In fact, the entire story is in the pictures and I am
not saying much, I agree. This is not about me talking and if it were, I
would not have much to say because I have seen and heard everything I saw
and heard yesterday before.

So, my point with this post is exactly what I thought I had already put
across. OB is not ready for prime time and in need of a focused message if
it hopes to be taken seriously. Now, my 2 hours may have missed something
profound that will happen or has happened. Maybe the whole thing is profound
and not to be judged on a 2 hour snippet in time. Maybe the kids organizing
in the picture below were about to make history. I don't know. I just reported
back - with some silliness I grant you - my impression. Believe me, if my
consciousness were altered in any way, I'd have reported it, instead of making
funny captions below the photos.

Sad to say, Occupy Boston is not ready for prime time. This is not to say
there were not some good causes represented at OB aside from the pro-socialism,
pro-union stuff. But my view upon walking through the little tent city, hearing
some sloganeering and the prerequisite bongos playing non-stop, is that this
is a real disappointment; a jumbled hodgepodge of stuff heard a million times
in the 60's, with some of it even being relevant to the corporate culture that
increasingly intertwines itself with our daily lives.

Boston is either a giant step behind New York (as usual), or Chris Hedges
hallucinated his thought provoking piece A
Movement Too Big To Fail as he wrote about OWS.

An interlude: A few weeks ago my friend Jonathan, whose brokerage shop is
right in the middle of Manhattan, noted to me the cheery colors that New York's
cutting edge fashionistas are wearing nowadays. This in contrast to the drabbed
out "Tom Joad look a likes" he noted back on 2006/07 well before the crash.
Flash to Boston's epic Head
of the Charles Regatta and I have to tell you I have never seen so many
people dressed in black out there by the banks of the River Charles. Good old
Boston, still stuck in a bear market mentality while NYC's fashionable elite
are already projecting bullish times ahead.

Back on message, as I approached the OB I was videoing myself (it is on the
cutting room floor as this ain't about me) in front of Bank of America. A security
guard came running and waving out of a little guard shack telling me "No no,
no camera here!" "Why?" I asked, "I am only videoing myself talking." "No no,
they do not want anyone to take pictures... they probably have YOU on
video!" "Oh okay, well thanks for the info" says I, walking away feeling like
I am in the middle of some alternate world with Michael Moore as its only other
occupant.

Next I came upon a group of Boston's finest - really big dudes with really
shiny motorcycles all in a perfect line. "Hi officers, do you mind if I get
a photo?" Yes, barked the most important looking one. Okay then, moving on...
I am starting to think this OB must be really big because these guys are deployed
on a side street outside of the occupation area, just in case.

So much for first impressions.

Here is a little video in front of the Boston Federal Reserve. For some reason
I felt more in my element hanging around at the Fed then I did at OB. When
I was a little kid, my dad was driving my sister and me down Storrow Drive
and we came upon a herd of hippies crossing the road to the Hatch Shell for
a concert. I had my head out the window going 'moo, the cows are leaving' (like
in the commercial from back then) and a hippie gave me the finger. I never
liked hippies. So yeh, I felt more at home at the Fed than I did among the
Socialist, Unionist, Marxist contingent of OB.

While I took more video from right inside OB, I think pictures will work better
than bongos and slogans drilling away at your ears.

This is a sign I agree with, being a non DemoPublican myself.

And you know I agree with this one as well.

Yawn.

Doin' his own thing in his own time man, it's beautiful. To paraphrase Easy
Rider.

I actually think I could win an award for this photo.

You mean greed is not good?

Not sure who he is, but he is obviously pretty important... and purple.

Same here bro.

Occupation can be taxing, and it can apparently be relaxing.

Gandhi and Doctor King were great men.

Tents, tents and more tents.

Yes it is, just like Capitalist Pig. Well, that's two words but...

Power to the people. Seriously I mean.

Young people organizing just off site.

But Chris Hedges said this has nothing to do with Democrats and unions and...

Like I said, there are some good points to be made here.

It's just people after all. And every last one has the right to assembly, speech,
etc.

Just as I have a right to...

end my day as I see fit.

I do not want to minimize the circumstance that drove some of these people
here. Corporate greed is after all, the reason I started doing this website
and blog thing back in '04. Corporate greed, screwed up government and yup,
the Federal Reserve banking system.

I just feel that the Occupy Boston segment of the revolution is not nearly
where it needs to be. I am actually surprised there was not a 'Save the Whales'
contingent. And I do not make light of that because cruelty toward, and exploitation
of such beautiful creatures actually breaks my heart. But what the f__k are
we talking about here? Come on people... FOCUS!

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